School: Aghmakerr (roll number 16455)
- Location:
- Aghmakerr, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Peadar Ua Dubhthaigh
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“One time a man from Farney was working in Africa along with some other boys.”
One time a man from Farney was working in Africa along with some other boys. One evening they were walking towards a volcano. All around it there was burning lava. They proceeded slowly and suddenly the man from Farney saw a man riding a horse through the burning lava. The horse plunged up to the volcano and the man and the horse went down into it. The man from Farney told his companions that he knew the man that went into the volcano. He wrote home to his friends in Farney and asked them was this man whom he recognized dead and if he was to write back and tell him where and when he died. They replied that he was dead and they told him the time he died and it was just at that time he saw him going into the volcano. The man from Farney believed since that time that all(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maggie Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumillard, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Nally
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Beagh, Co. Monaghan